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The '''European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration''' (EPoSS) is a [[Europe]]an [[Seventh Framework Programme]] initiative to improve the competitive situation of the [[European Union]] in the field of [[Smart Systems]] Technologies and integrated Micro and Nanosystems.

The programme is a [[Joint Technology Initiative|joint initiative]] ([[Public-private partnership|Public-Private Partnership]]) of the [[European Commission]], representing the European Communities, and the industry.

EPoSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration, is an industry-driven policy initiative, defining R&D and innovation needs as well as policy requirements related to Smart Systems Integration and integrated '''Micro- and Nanosystems'''.

EPoSS is an international non-profit association according to German law. The EPoSS Association was founded on 18 September 2013. Its structure consists of Board, General Assembly, Executive Committee, Working Groups and Office.

EPoSS aims to:

* provide a common European approach on Innovative Smart Systems Integration from research to production, outlining the key issues for a strategic European innovation process,
* define priorities for common research and innovation in the future,
* formulate commonly agreed road maps for action (updating, assembling and completing existing material and approaches) and provide a strategic R&D agenda, and
* mobilise public and private human, infrastructural and financial resources.

The initiative is of immediate importance in view of defining research and technology priorities for '''the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation''', for raising more critical mass as well as resources and for coordinating different initiatives (national, regional, EUREKA, European public funding and industry).

EPoSS is a strategic partner of the European Platform for Sport Innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epsi.eu/epsi-strategic-partners/|title=EPSI Strategic Partners|website=The European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI)|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-06}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[European Technology Platform]]
* [[Joint Technology Initiative]]

==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061002122753/http://www.epistep.org/other-ICT-ETPs/default.php Interrelation between ICT ETPs]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/reding/docs/speeches/eposs_20060705.pdf EPoSS] (speech)
*Akhras, G., [http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo1/no3/doc/25-32-eng.pdf "Smart Materials and Smart Systems for the Future"], ''Canadian Military Journal'', 08/2000
*{{cite book|title=Smart systems integration 2008 : 2nd European Conference & Exhibition on Integration Issues of Miniaturized Systems - MEMS, MOEMS, ICs and Electronic Components, Barcelona, Spain, 9-10 April 2008|publisher=VDE-Verlag|year=2008|isbn=978-3-8007-3081-0|editor=Gessner, Thomas|publication-place=Berlin|ref={{sfnref | VDE-Verlag | 2008}}}}
*{{cite book|title=Smart system integration 2007 Paris, France 27. - 28.03.2007 ; with CD-ROM|last=Gessner|first=Thomas|publisher=VDE-Verl|year=2007|isbn=978-3-8007-3009-4|publication-place=BerlinOffenbach}}
*{{cite book|title=Smart systems integration|last=Gessner|first=Thomas|publisher=VDE-Verl|year=2013|isbn=978-3-8007-3490-0|publication-place=BerlinOffenbach}}
*Internet-of-Things in 2020 – A roadmap for the future, 2008 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090105201328/http://www.smart-systems-integration.org/public/electric-vehicle/documents/strategy_paper]
*{{cite book|title=Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2018: Smart Systems for Clean, Safe and Shared Road Vehicles|last=Meyer|first=Gereon|display-authors=etal|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=978-3-319-99762-9|publication-place=Berlin}}
*Electronic Components and Systems, Strategic Research Agenda 2018 [https://www.smart-systems-integration.org/publication/ecs-sra-2018 (ECS-SRA)]

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